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2:15 PM ET, November 5, 2010

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Simmi Aujla / The Politico:
Keith Olbermann contributed to three Democrats  —  MSNBC host Keith Olbermann made campaign contributions to two Arizona members of Congress and failed Kentucky Senate candidate Jack Conway ahead of Tuesday's election — a potential violation of NBC ethics policies.
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Mike Allen / The Politico:
$250k ‘dead’ as tax-cut tier …
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Rasmussen Polls Were Biased and Inaccurate; Quinnipiac, SurveyUSA Performed Strongly  —  Every election cycle has its winners and losers: not just the among the candidates, but also the pollsters.  —  On Tuesday, polls conducted by the firm Rasmussen Reports — which released more than 100 surveys …
Renee / Renee Ellmers for Congress:
Conservative Recount Alert!  — Etheridge Asks for Recount  —  Dear Supporters, Election night, after the ten counties in my district had reported their votes, I led Bob Etheridge by 2,100 votes.  (That number is crucial because under North Carolina law Congressman Etheridge is not entitled …
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Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Republicans try to keep it simple
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
McConnell: Wanting to beat Obama shouldn't be partisan obstacle
Discussion: The Politico
J.P. Freire / Beltway Confidential:
GOP establishment more of a liability than the Tea Party ever was
Al Kamen / Washington Post:
Thousands of Democrats to be jobless in Washington  —  The Great Shellacking of 2010 will throw more than 2,000 Democratic congressional staffers out of their jobs.  And it will send thousands of gleeful Republican staffer wannabes into overdrive to get those resumes up to the Hill to fill those vacancies.
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Rep. Van Hollen done as chairman of DCCC
Discussion: The Politico and TPMDC
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Obama Aide Adjusts Course for a Comeback
Discussion: The Huffington Post and The Page
Richard Wolffe / The Daily Beast:
Team Obama Blaming Rahm
The Hill:
Dems split over Pelosi bid for minority leader  —  Battle lines are emerging in the House Democratic Caucus over Speaker Nancy Pelosi's (D-Calif.) possible bid to stay on as the minority leader.  —  Liberal Democrats are mobilizing in support of Pelosi remaining at the head of the party …
Discussion: Capitol Alert
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Alexander Mooney / CNN:
Boren calls for Pelosi replacement
Discussion: Firedoglake and TPMDC
Jonathan Karl / ABCNEWS:
ABC News Exclusive: Nancy Pelosi Seriously Considers Staying as Democratic Leader
New York Times:
Tea Party Flexes Muscle With Republicans  —  WASHINGTON — The incoming leadership of the new House Republican majority hardly had a chance to relish its dismantling of the Democrats before the Tea Party came calling in the form of Representative Michele Bachmann.
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Jake Sherman / The Politico:
Bachmann vs. Hensarling race heats up
Discussion: ABCNEWS and The Daily Caller
Jackie Calmes / New York Times:
For G.O.P., Big Ambitions Face Daunting Obstacles
Discussion: CNN and The Future of Capitalism
Reuters:
Clinton rules out a presidential run through 2016  —  (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ruled out running for president in 2012 or 2016 on Friday, saying the United States should be ready for a woman president but it would not be her.  —  In interviews in New Zealand …
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Sean J. Miller / Ballot Box:
‘Hillary voters’ abandon Democrats
Discussion: Fox News and Weasel Zippers
Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
A return to the norm  —  For all the turmoil, the spectacle, the churning - for all the old bulls slain and fuzzy-cheeked freshmen born - the great Republican wave of 2010 is simply a return to the norm.  The tide had gone out; the tide came back.  A center-right country restores …
Catherine Rampell / New York Times:
U.S. Added Jobs Last Month for First Time Since May  —  The United States economy added 151,000 jobs in October, a welcome change after four months of job losses but still not enough to make a dent in unemployment.  —  Private companies have been slowly growing their payrolls throughout 2010 …
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
EPA official who pushed CO2 regulation resigns  —  In the wake of historic midterm losses, people wondered whether Barack Obama would be willing or even able to execute a shift to the center and work with Republicans in the House to find areas of common ground on policy …
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Robin Bravender / The Politico:
EPA policy chief steps down
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
The Focus Hocus-Pocus  —  Democrats, declared Evan Bayh in an Op-Ed article on Wednesday in The Times, “overreached by focusing on health care rather than job creation during a severe recession.”  Many others have been saying the same thing: the notion that the Obama administration erred …
Larry O'Connor / Breitbart.tv:
Liberal Civil War Breaks Out on MSNBC; Progressive Glenn Greenwald vs. ‘Socialist’ Lawrence O'Donnell  —  This website uses IntenseDebate comments, but they are not currently loaded because either your browser doesn't support JavaScript, or they didn't load fast enough.
CBS News:
Obama: “Leadership Isn't Just Legislation”  —  Tells Steve Kroft About His Administration's Failure In His First 1-on1 Interview Since The Midterm Elections  —  (CBS) President Obama tells “60 Minutes” correspondent Steve Kroft that one of the reasons the electorate has become disenchanted …
Wall Street Journal:
Americans Vote for Maturity  —  Obama gets a rebuke, but so do Republicans who seem unqualified.  —  'The people have spoken, the bastards.  " That would be how Democrats in the White House and on Capitol Hill are feeling.  The last two years of their leadership have been rebuffed.
Discussion: JOSHUAPUNDIT and The Daily Dish
Paul Hammel / Omaha World-Herald:
Bruning eyes U.S. Senate bid  —  LINCOLN — To no one's surprise, Attorney General Jon Bruning tossed his hat into the ring for the 2012 U.S. Senate race.  —  Bruning's announcement Friday came 19 hours after Gov. Dave Heineman, the state's leading Republican, announced he would forgo …
Discussion: The Fix and Taegan Goddard's …
Stan Collender / Capital Gains and Games blogs:
Can The GOP Really Wait Until Next Year To Shut Down The Government?  —  Those who think the Republicans in the House and Senate have several months to get organized are seriously misreading the political tea leaves.  —  Even though the smaller Senate GOP minority and House Republican majority …
Becky Bohrer / Associated Press:
Murkowski acts like victor; questions linger  —  WRITE-INS: Valid votes are yet to be determined, counted.  —  Alaska U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski is acting as though she already has pulled off an improbable victory after her write-in candidacy, enthusiastically thanking supporters and telling them they've made history.
Discussion: Ballot Box
James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
The Empire Strikes Back  —  The GOP picks up six Senate seats.  Let the recriminations begin!  —  Incumbent Democrat Michael Bennet has been called the winner of Colorado's Senate race, which puts the Republican gain at six seats, assuming Sen. Patty Murray of Washington holds on to her lead over Republican Dino Rossi.
Felix Salmon:
How QE works  —  Gawker's John Cook asks me a question about how the Fed's quantitative easing is supposed to work: … John has a few of the details wrong, but at heart he's absolutely right.  The way that QE works is that the Fed will publish a schedule of how many Treasury bonds it intends to buy and when.
 
 
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Ronald Brownstein / NationalJournal.com:
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Eric McGhee / The Monkey Cage:
Did Controversial Roll Call Votes Doom the Democrats?
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
What Happened to Prop 19  —  Why did the Pot Legalization proposition …
Discussion: The Daily Dish and TPMDC
Paul Ryan / Financial Times:
How the Republicans can fulfil their pledge
Discussion: The Baseline Scenario
Kathryn Ciano / Washington Examiner:
Ron ‘End the Fed’ Paul, Federal Reserve overseer?
Discussion: Left Coast Rebel and The Politico
Michael D. Shear / The Caucus:
Obama Recasts Asia Trip as Jobs Mission
Discussion: Maggie's Farm, Althouse and Instapundit
Simon Jenkins / Guardian:
Does Britain really need the military?
Discussion: normblog
Mike Huckabee / Huck PAC:
Joe Miller for U.S. Senate
 Earlier Items: 
Hartford Courant:
Bridgeport Vote Appears To Give Governor's Race To Malloy
Discussion: TPMDC and National Review
John Boehner / Wall Street Journal:
What the Next Speaker Must Do
David Brooks / New York Times:
Midwest at Dusk  —  If Balzac were alive today, he would plant himself …
Discussion: Swampland and The Huffington Post
Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:
Howard Dean's surprise presidential announcement
Discussion: Politics Daily
Michelle Malkin:
Fort Hood massacre: One year later
Discussion: WECT-TV
Diane C. Lade / Sun-Sentinel:
New questions being raised about court filings in foreclosure cases
Discussion: The Big Picture
Jim Brunner / Seattle Times:
Rossi concedes; Sen. Patty Murray wins fourth term
 

 
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
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